Written and photographed by Stephen Oldfield and including the follow-up project, 'A Four Dales Up and Under': this is a blog for all those who love the truly wild landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. Comments, complaints or compliments are welcome!
The author may be contacted directly at weathercote44@gmail.com

Thursday, 26 December 2013

Three Peaks Thrills of Thirteen

The best of 2013: part two

July: Jacko returns to Malham Cove after his 1973 'skydive'.

July: Superb view from the brink of Malham Cove.

July: Malham Cove from the stream below the cliff face.

August: The Smelt Mill chimney near Malham Tarn.

August: Malham Tarn from the path to the Priest's House.

August: Chapel Cave, Malham Tarn.

August: Is that a man peeping round the corner in Chapel Cave?

August: Kirkby Malham Church - 'Cathedral of the Dales.'

August: Kirkby Malham Church.

August: Limestone pavement above the Watlowes, Malham.

August: Watlowes dry valley, Malham.

August: Lichens on an old tree - Malham Tarn.

August: The author on the edge of the world: Malham Cove.

August: Scaleber Force, Settle, in flood.

August: Stridebut Iron Age Settlement, Malham.

August: Sheriff Hill burial cairn, Malham Cove.

August: The ancient enclosures of the Malham Raikes.

August: The Lower fall of Force Gill, Whernside.

August: Grensett Cave, high on the slopes of Whernside.

August: The author inside Greensett Cave, Whernside.

August: Greensett Tarn, Whernside.

August: Southerscales, looking to Whernside.

August: The awe-inspiring Meregill Hole, Ingleborough.

August: Red admiral at Meregill Hole.

August: Limestone beneath the slopes of Ingleborough.

August: Ingleborough from Raven Scars.

August: Raven Scar Cave - inhabited by early man.

August: Bronze Age settlements, Ingleborough.

August: White Scars, Ingleborough.

August: Solitary hawthorn, White Scars, Ingleborough.

August: On the Black Shiver ridge, Ingleborough, with the pavements below.

August: Boulder of gritstone just below the summit of Ingleborough.

August: The main limestone, the highest band of limestone on Ingleborough.